Legend SCREWED UP & Played the WRONG NOTE…MISTAKE Became Most Played RIFF EVER! | Professor of Rock

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Coming up… We’ve covered the Greatest IMPROV songs that became Magic. Well, today we're doing a sister series… We're counting down the Top 7 Mistakes That Turned into Gold. Screw ups that actually resulted in TRUE GREATNESS. We’re exposing songs that didn’t fail—they exploded after a stumble, a split-second miscue that stuck and became iconic. You’ll hear about a Kinks guitarist, Dave Davies, who blew up his amp and it resulted in the first hard rock Song, and invented Guitar Distortion. Then there was Ozzy Osbourne, who laughed through a botched intro to his anthem Crazy Train and let out the most famous three-letter word in rock history, and Ritchie Blackmore, who played a wrong note that sounded like a classical music piece that he turned into the most played riff by those first learning guitar. And then, of course, Paul McCartney, who sang the wrong lyrics and created a classic! The anxious moments that made these tracks legendary on the Top 7 Mistakes that Turned to Gold, NEXT… on Professor of Rock. Get in on the action with MyBookie. Use our promo code ROCK and any bet you choose up to $500 is fully covered. Go to https://www.mybookie.ag/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Executive Producer Brandon Fugal Honorary Producers Kimberley Rumburg, Brent Gephart, Glenn Beardmore, Jennifer Selvidge, Carl Curcuruto, Thomas Williams ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe to the Professor of Rock Podcast Apple: https://apple.co/445fVov Spotify: https://spoti.fi/42JpfvU Amazon: https://amzn.to/44b5D6m iHeartRadio: https://bit.ly/444h8MO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Patreon: http://bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan Merch Store: https://professor-of-rock-merch.creator-spring.com/ Instagram: https://bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of_Rock #classicrock #70smusic #vinylstory #ozzyosbourne Hey music junkies, Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If you took your BMX bike off the beaten path to do wheelies and jump ramps, you’ll dig this channel of deep musical nostalgia. Subscribe below right now. I promise that you are going to love this channel. Today we have a great show for ya. The kind of stories of songs we all love. We’ve done the improv magic shows where a split decision in the moment turned into greatness…Like the young soprano who sang a higher octave that the one on the sheet music and turned the lion sleep tonight into a classic but today we take it even further in a sister series where Rockstars screwed up in a major way and were rewarded with greatness… The top 7 Mistakes that became classic hits! At #7 it is the insane story of the butchering of an innocent amp by The Kinks on their classic song… “You Really Got Me:” One late afternoon in London studio day back in ’64, a studio room buzzed with the kind of electric tension that only a roomful of amplifiers and ambitious young rockers can generate. The Kinks were chasing something intense, the kind of rush that makes you willing to gamble on a dare. Kinks lead axeman, Dave Davies, stood with his guitar tuned for grit, his Vox AC30 already punching out a clean, jangly rhythm that seemed almost too polite for the song they were trying to pull into life. Across the room, Shel Talmy, the vaunted producer with a keen ear for edge, and the rest of the band watched. There was a mix of anticipation and nerves in the air. They wanted a sound that felt dangerous, that snapped at the listener’s senses and wouldn’t let go. On a whim of impulse, anger & exasperation, Dave reached for a razor blade—a reckless tool to alter the voice of the instrument itself. He slid the blade along the edge of the speaker cone inside the amp cabinet. A crack sounded, then another, and a web of tear lines appeared across the cone. It wasn’t a surgical modification because Dave didn’t really know what he was doing, and when he saw the damage, he had a “OH CRAP, WHAT HAVE I DONE” panic attack. Fortunately, the master studio mic captured a rogue distorted sound coming out of the damaged amp. The guitar wasn’t just playing notes anymore; it tore at the track, a brutal, blistering howl nearly out of control. The band waited in silence for a beat, then realized Dave’s reckless mistake may actually turn into something that could not only define the track they were searching for but maybe true rock greatness. Dave Davies had stumbled onto something distinctive, something that could blast the song into orbit. The distorted roar that came from the shredded cone of the amp started off as an apparent mistake to mend but ended up being a bold accent to embrace. In that moment, The Kinks had truly captured a sound that would blaze the trail of hard rock.